2022 sees the 50th anniversary of the 1972 White Paper on Metrication – a policy document that set out the Government’s plans for the nation’s metrication programme in the 1970s. The publication of the White Paper was approved at a Cabinet meeting held on Tuesday 11 January 1972. The White Paper affirmed that it was … Continue reading The 1972 White Paper on Metrication – 50 years on